TY  - GEN
AU  - Beetz,Christian
ED  - Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
TI  - Between Madness and Art: the Prinzhorn Collection
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Brooklyn (Nueva York, Estados Unidos)
PB  - Icarus Films
KW  - Prinzhorn, Hans
KW  - Psicoanálisis y arte
KW  - Arte como terapia
KW  - Enfermedades mentales
KW  - Artistas
KW  - Aspectos psicológícos
KW  - Esquizofrenia
KW  - Estudio de casos
N2  - What is the link between psychological states and the creative process? Is there a relationship between psychosis and the artistic impulse? What can art works produced by mental patients tell us about artistic genius? Can art therapy be helpful in the treatment of the mentally ill? The film examines these issues through the story of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933), a German student of psychiatry and art history. As Director of the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic in the 1920s, he was fascinated by the beauty and expressiveness of the drawings, paintings and sculptures of his schizophrenic patients. He began to study and preserve this art, eventually writing a seminal study, Artistry of the Mentally Ill, and by the time of his death had organized the largest collection of its type in the world. The film tells this remarkable story through archival footage, profiles of Prinzhorn's patient-artists, footage of their art works, and interviews with psychotherapists, doctors, artists, curators, two contemporary outpatient artists and the collection's current director [Tomado de envase]
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